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Foreign Experience of CEOs and Managerial Risk Taking

Foreign Experience of CEOs and Managerial Risk Taking

Description

Our paper uses a multidimensional analysis to provide a better insight on the relationship between CEO foreign experience and corporate risk-taking.
Our paper uses a multidimensional analysis to provide a better insight on the relationship between CEO foreign experience and corporate risk-taking. By decomposing the foreign experience of CEOs from developing economies such as Malaysia, we find that CEOs who have studied in OECD countries undertake higher levels of risk-taking and CEOs’ foreign working experience may have an adverse effect on risk-taking behaviour especially if the working experience is obtained from non-OECD countries. Additional analysis reveals that younger CEOs and family CEOs with foreign working experience matter in reinforcing the firms’ risk-taking activities. Overall, our findings provide implication for researchers and policymakers seeking to nurture risk-taking behaviours and innovativeness in emerging countries.

Author
1. Siew-Boey Yeoh (Universiti Sains Malaysia)
2. Chee-Wooi Hooy (Universiti Sains Malaysia)
Journal
Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies
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